{"id":1495872,"date":"2022-05-28T17:31:55","date_gmt":"2022-05-28T21:31:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1495872"},"modified":"2022-05-28T17:32:42","modified_gmt":"2022-05-28T21:32:42","slug":"fact-check-does-ted-cruz-send-the-same-tweet-after-every-mass-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fact-check-does-ted-cruz-send-the-same-tweet-after-every-mass-shooting\/","title":{"rendered":"FACT CHECK: Does Ted Cruz Send The Same Tweet After Every Mass Shooting?"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffact-check-does-ted-cruz-send-the-same-tweet-after-every-mass-shooting%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1495872&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>An image <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/AGzKs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">shared on Facebook<\/a> purportedly shows a series of tweets from Republican Texas Sen. Ted Cruz lamenting various mass shootings.<\/p>\n<p>Facebook\/Screenshot<\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Verdict: False<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Only the most recent tweet about the school shooting in Uvalde, Texas is real. There is no record of Cruz sending the other 11 tweets included in the image.<\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Fact Check:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>A gunman killed 19 students and two adults at Uvalde, Texas\u2019 Robb Elementary School on May 24, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/live-updates\/uvalde-texas-school-shooting-05-25-2022\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NPR<\/a>. The same day, Cruz <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tedcruz\/status\/1529190433091461123\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">tweeted<\/a> about the attack, writing, \u201cHeidi &#038; I are fervently lifting up in prayer the children and families in the horrific shooting in Uvalde. We are in close contact with local officials, but the precise details are still unfolding. Thank you to heroic law enforcement &#038; first responders for acting so swiftly.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Heidi &#038; I are fervently lifting up in prayer the children and families in the horrific shooting in Uvalde.<\/p>\n<p>We are in close contact with local officials, but the precise details are still unfolding.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you to heroic law enforcement &#038; first responders for acting so swiftly.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tedcruz\/status\/1529190433091461123?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 24, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>An image shared on Facebook purportedly shows 11 other nearly identical tweets from Cruz that he allegedly sent after other mass shootings, including the school shootings that occurred in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/us-news\/police-respond-shooting-parkland-florida-high-school-n848101\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Parkland, Florida<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2013\/06\/07\/us\/connecticut-shootings-fast-facts\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Newtown, Connecticut<\/a>. \u201cThese mass shootings happen so much that Ted Cruz really got a template ready to tweet whenever they occur,\u201d reads the image\u2019s caption.<\/p>\n<p>In reality, none of the supposed tweets except the one about the Uvalde shooting can be found on Cruz\u2019s verified <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%22Heidi%20%26%20I%20are%20fervently%20lifting%20up%20in%20prayer%20the%20children%20and%20families%20in%20the%20horrific%20shooting%20in%22%20(from%3Atedcruz)&#038;src=typed_query&#038;f=top\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Twitter<\/a> account. There is no record of the other 11 tweets on ProPublica\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/projects.propublica.org\/politwoops\/index?utf8=%E2%9C%93&#038;q=%22Heidi+%26+I+are+fervently+lifting+up+in+prayer+the+children+and+families+in+the+horrific+shooting+in%22\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Politwoops<\/a> archive of his deleted tweets either. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/checkyourfact.com\/2022\/05\/27\/fact-check-florida-lawmaker-school-children-sacrifice-tweet\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Did Florida Politician Randy Fine Publish This Tweet About \u2018Sacrificing\u2019 School Children For The Second Amendment?)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There are no credible news reports <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=Ted+Cruz+%22Heidi+%26+I+are+fervently+lifting+up+in+prayer+the+children+and+families+in+the+horrific+shooting+in%22&#038;oq=Ted+Cruz+%22Heidi+%26+I+are+fervently+lifting+up+in+prayer+the+children+and+families+in+the+horrific+shooting+in%22&#038;aqs=chrome..69i57.5101j0j7&#038;sourceid=chrome&#038;ie=UTF-8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">online<\/a> about Cruz making the statement in question in reference to any other mass shooting. He has <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tedcruz\/status\/1056222817711255552\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">posted<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tedcruz\/status\/1526302514643091456\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">similar<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tedcruz\/status\/1465812433986015237\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">tweets<\/a> in response to past shootings but never made the same statement about two different shootings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An image shared on Facebook purportedly shows a series of tweets from Republican Texas Sen. Ted Cruz lamenting various mass shootings.Facebook\/ScreenshotVerdict: False Only the most recent tweet about the school<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":1495965,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1495872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1495872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/89"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1495872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1495872\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1495965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1495872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1495872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1495872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}